Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (San Isidro, Buenos Aires, 4 November 1968) is an Argentine writer and journalist. She is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Argentine and Latin American literature, apart from being a well-known intellectual, and a feminist and environmentalist. She has published three novels, but is best known for her debut with La Virgen Cabeza (2009), which gained her literary recognition and laid the foundations of her style. It was translated into English by Frances Riddle as Slum Virgin and published by Charco Press. This translated version was shortlisted for the Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize at the Gijón Noir Week in Spain and chosen as book of the year by Rolling Stone magazine in Argentina in 2009. Her other two novels are: Las aventuras de la China Iron (2017), which interpreted Gaucho literature from a feminist and queer point of view—the English version of which was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize— and Las niñas del naranjel (2023), about the historical figure of Monja Alférez and the Conquest of the Americas, which obtained the Ciutat de Barcelona award in Spanish-language literature. Her articles have been published in various media outlets, such as Soy, Anfibia, Le …
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Información sobre le autore
- Fecha de nacimiento:
- 3 de noviembre de 1968
Enlaces externos
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (San Isidro, Buenos Aires, 4 November 1968) is an Argentine writer and journalist. She is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Argentine and Latin American literature, apart from being a well-known intellectual, and a feminist and environmentalist. She has published three novels, but is best known for her debut with La Virgen Cabeza (2009), which gained her literary recognition and laid the foundations of her style. It was translated into English by Frances Riddle as Slum Virgin and published by Charco Press. This translated version was shortlisted for the Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize at the Gijón Noir Week in Spain and chosen as book of the year by Rolling Stone magazine in Argentina in 2009. Her other two novels are: Las aventuras de la China Iron (2017), which interpreted Gaucho literature from a feminist and queer point of view—the English version of which was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize— and Las niñas del naranjel (2023), about the historical figure of Monja Alférez and the Conquest of the Americas, which obtained the Ciutat de Barcelona award in Spanish-language literature. Her articles have been published in various media outlets, such as Soy, Anfibia, Le Monde diplomatique, and Revista Ñ. She also worked as the editor of the Culture section of Argentine newspaper Clarín. She is currently the head of the chair of the CINO Writing Workshop of the Creative Writing Course at the National University of the Arts. One of her students is Argentine writer and journalist Belén López Peiró, who writes about her experiences with child sexual abuse. Furthermore, she received a scholarship as a writer-in-residence at UC Berkeley in 2013. She is a co-founder of the feminist movement Ni una menos.
